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Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985)
62 occurrences
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Ma mawilti wan mas pipiltzitzin, yu muchiwa alegrar.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Let him play with other boys, he'll cheer up."
Kalikat ne yey pipiltzitzin se inmijmichintzitzin, wan ne seyuk kalika se itapajsul ne wilutzin mareño.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The three boys brought some little fish, and the other brought a nest of the mareño bird.
Ka nepa, ka nepa kitemuat se inmichintzin wan ne seyuk ne itapajsul ne wijwilutzin.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
There, over there they looked for some fish and the other one for a bird's nest.
Tejemet tiawita, kilwia ne shuretzin: Shakan, pero te shikelkawa, cualquier rato shiwala wan ne mutelpuchtzin; ka nikan nemit ne iamigitus pal mawiltia.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"We're going now", said the old man; "you go too, but don't forget, come anytime with your son; here are his friends to play with".
Wan taja seyuk ministro.
Historia de un Rey · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Taja tiu tinaka de ministro. Taja seyuk ministro. Wan taja seyuk ministro.
"You will be a minister, you will be another minister, and you will be yet another minister."
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Yaja kitajtan se konsejoj wan kimakaket, kimakat se konsejoj.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
He asked for advice and it was given to him, they gave him advice.
Kinutza ne ishulejyu; ya tesu kichiwa kasoj, ken ne kuchikia, wan tesu kuchi.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She spoke to her husband; he didn't pay attention to her, as though he was sleeping, but he wasn't asleep.
Ashan nechilwia ne palej asu nikpia se nufinkita, ma niyu iwan, wan ne chijchiltik tzaput ma kikwa ne ujuksik, wan tami ma kimaka wan ne chijchikajtuk pal nikmiktia.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Now the priest told me that if I have a farm that I should go with her that she eat the red custard apples that are ripe, and then I should hit her with the hard ones in order to kill her."
Al fin de tanto, wakik ne masat, wan yaja, ne tzuntekumat, yawia miki ka iseltzin tik ne kebrada.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Finally the deer dried up and she, the skull, was going to die all alone there in the canyon.
Wan tami yajki yajki.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
And then she left, she went.
Muchijki ne kwawit wan kipishki se itakil, se wajkal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The tree grew and it had a fruit, a gourd.
Kitek, kitek, wan kiwikak ka ichan.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She cut it off, she cut it and took it home.
Pejki ne inlama kiwijwilanij ne ajamakitas, wan tami.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Pejki ne inlama kiwijwilanij ne ajamakitas, wan tami. Ajka puchut, ajka puchut, ajka puchut, yajki sepa ne puchut ka ajku.
Their grandmother began to hang the hammocks. Afterwards, "up silk-cotton tree, up tree up, tree"; the silk-cotton tree went back up.
Wan tami kalnutzket ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Wan tami kalnutzket ne inlama. Kinekit temut, ma kaltemulti.
Later they called their grandmother; they want to get down, get them down.
Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.
They skinned it and told their grandmother to cook it; she cooked it.
Pejki kalnutza ne ienamorado pal sentakwat, pal sentakwat wan ne ienamorado.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
She began to call her lover so they could eat together, so she could eat together with her lover.
Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj. Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.
"Make the trench here, but sharpen the güiscoyols and put them in the ground."
Uk yu witz ne tukujkul wan yu kimati ne. parran! pa! yu temu.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
"Now our 'bogeyman' is going to come there and he's going to feel the "parran", "pa", he's going to fall."
Talikat masat, wan sanka.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Shikida nanita!, kilwiat. Talikat masat, wan sanka.
"Look, gramma", they said to her, "we brought a deer", and it was a lie.
Tesu, tesu ja masat, sino ne idamuj ne inlama, ja yaja kimiktijket, wan kiwikaket ne nakat pal kikwa ne inlama.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
No, that was not deer, but rather their grandmother's fellow. It was him that they killed, and they took the meat so that their grandmother would eat it.
Pejki ne Tantepuslamat kikwa ne nakat, wan tami kilwijket: Ken tikmatki ne nakat, lama?
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
The iron-toothed-old-woman began to eat the meat. Afterwards they said, "how did you find the meat, grandmother?".
Mas ka tiutak, witzaya wan ne itapak.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
Later in the evening she was coming with her wash.
Kilpijket ne ajargoyaj wan kimakaket tit ne kal.
El Nanahuatzin · Cuisnahuat, 1976
Translation
They tied the rings (of the door) and set fire to the house.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Na nikelnamiki tay nechilwij nunoyaj wan nu tatanoy.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
I remember what my grandmother and my grandfather told me.
Keman inat yejemet ka yawi panu urakan, segun yejemet inat ka tik ne ejekat panu ne witzet hombres wan siwatket al aire con tal de que witzet kwikat elut pal yejemet kiwikat, kunij ne mijmil nakak bien quebrado, bien aplastado, varias mazorcas desfigurado en un aspecto de como buba, yajane mazorcas kwikat ne Chiltiupanekos sekun nutatanoy wan nu noyaj kichiwket kontar.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.
Pero en ese caso siyujti nemi se takat intelijentej, wan muchiwki proponer ke era de mas tay witzet kichiwat nin tik tutechan.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
But in this case, once there was a smart man who held that what they came to do in our town was too much.
Kunij ne takat ke kikutamin kitzki ne chumpipi kwika ka ichan, inmediatamente kichiwki ordinar iswaw ma kimikti ne chumpipi pal kikwat, entonces ne isiwaw kimiktij ne chumpipi, kichiwki desplumar wan kichiwki ne komidaj, wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then the man who caught and grabbed the turkey took it to his house. Immediately he ordered his wife to kill the turkey so they could eat it. So his wife killed the turkey, plucked it, and made the food, and they ate it.
A los tres dias ka panutuk ne urakan wan kikwajtiwit ne chumpipi. walajket ume takamet wan se siwat kitemuat, kunij ajsiket ichan ne takat kaj kikutaminki por que yejemet poco mas o menos kimatiata katka kaj kikutamin.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
On the third day after the storm had passed and they had eaten the turkey, there came two men and a woman to look for it. They arrived at the house of the man who had caught it because they more or less already knew who had caught it.
Kunij yaja kitzki wan kwikak ka ichan, wan kilwij isiwaw ma kimiktij wan kichiwki se komidaj wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then he caught it and took it home and told his wife to kill it and make the food, and they ate it.
Los tres ajsiket kan nemi ne plumas wan ne wejwesuj ka te kikwajtuk pelu.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
The three came to where the feathers and bones were that the dog had not eaten.
Kunij yemet (yejemet) kianket ne wesuj kichiwket se puniuj wan kitajtanket se bateya wan se buen puniuj at wan se carreton ileraj kiminket ka ikajku.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then they picked up the bones, made a pile, and asked for a trough and a lot of water and a spool of thread, and they throw it into the air.
Al ratito tikwini,kan (kwak)(keman) tikwinik yaja kita ka maya kimak bueltaj en la buelta ke kimaka muciwket elevar wan muchiwket desaparecer.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.
Kienej (kiane) kwikaket ne siwapil por ke ne takat en el momento ke kitak ne kichiwket la prueba kitak perfectamente ka se siwapil hermosa kiski tik ne wesuj wan ne plumaj.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Actually, they took the girl because at the moment the man saw that they tried this, he saw perfectly (well) that a beautiful girl came out of the bones and feathers.
Yajika neurakaneros witzet de Chiltiupan, witzet kwikat elut pal kikwa, pero kunij muchiwket jregar por ke kimiktijket se siwapil wan kikwajket.
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
So, the "hurricaners" in reality come from Chilteopan; they come to take ears of corn to eat. But they were screwed up, because they killed the girl and ate her.
Kienej nechiwtuk kontar nutatanoy wan nunoyaj, wan esta fecha siempre panu urakan pero tejemet teya keman tikitaket su walkuwetzi se, yajiika an nikchiwa kontar nuamikuj pal kwika como recuerdo ini kwentuj. <arco>
Los Huracaneros · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
That's what my grandfather and grandmother told me, and big storms always come, but we never saw if one came to fall. So, today I am telling this to my friend so he can take this story with him as a remembrance.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
An trece de julio y dia de San Antonio nin ninemi nuchan tisennemit a la par wan se nuamikuj, witz wejka, yaja kineki kikaki kwentos tay tik nutechan kikchiwtuk suceder.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Today, the 13th of July and St. Anthony's day, I am here in my house together with my friend who comes from far away. He likes to hear stories about what has taken place in my town.
Kunij kikwij ikalabus (ikalkabus) wan imataw yawi ka né Arkuj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Then he grabbed his machete and his net-bag, and went there to the arch.
Kalwika inan uk nawi pan onbron, kitaij tik imataw wan walaj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
His mother brought four more big buns. He put them in his bag and left.
Yejemet ka kipiat tumin, yajika ne yajket kimakat fin tik Arkuj, wan naj te nechajkawilijket tumin, maya pobresaj.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
They are the ones who have money. That's why they went there to end up in the arch. And they didn't leave me money, just poverty.
Al fin keman yaja kineki miki ka mayana wan te kipia kishtia se espejuj tay oraj takipini.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Finally, when he wanted to die because he was hungry and because he had nothing, he got out a mirror while it was lightning.
Tatawilua wan ne espejuj, pero né tesu yaja idestino te keman kimiktij.
El Arco · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
He shined with his mirror, but that was not to be his fate; he never killed him.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Kishtij isinidor, al descuido, keman ne Siwan nawal kichiwki sentir, kimakatuk dos vueltas wan kilpij.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
He took of his belt on the sly. When the Siguanaba noticed, he had wrapped it around her twice and tied her.
Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj. Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.
He took the woman to the house of the other woman named Leonarda and (this) Leonarda had been very cold. So she had gotten up late at night to light the fire to get over being cold.
Kunij, keman ajsik ne takat ke kwika ne siwat ilpijtuk wan isinidor.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Kunij, keman ajsik ne takat ke kwika ne siwat ilpijtuk wan isinidor. Kilwia: "Nana Lionaj!"
Then, when the man arrived who brought the woman tied with his belt, he said, "Doña Leonarda".
Al descuido nikilpij wan nusinidor wan nin nalwika pal niwitz nikita su cierto ka tesu tinemi."
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
"On the sly I tied her up with my belt and I'm bringing her here to see if it's true that it's not you."
Kichiwa jwersaj wan kilwia: Shinechsutuma!
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
She struggled and said, "let me go!".
Yajika, an nuamikoj nikchij kontar pal kimati ka nemi Tzuntekumat wan nemi Siwanawal, pal kaj te kipia balor kimutia.
La Siguanaba · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
Therefore, now, I told my friend so that he will know that the "skull" exists and that the Siguanaba exists, for whoever is not brave will be frightened.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Ne Sipitiyuj nikishmati nusan ka kisa tajtayua nusan wan nusan a las doce de la noche.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
The sipitillo, I know him too; he comes out at night too, at midnight.
Sucio el peludo wan tumak ishunpe wan chikitikchin.
El Sipitillo · Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1975
Translation
He was dirty, hairy, and his hat was giant, and he was very small.
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